A complete wrapper for the libarchive library generated using SWIG. Also included in the package are compatibility layers for the Python zipfile and tarfile modules.

Libarchive supports the following:

Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images.
Writes tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, ar, ISO, mtree, and shar archives.
Automatically handles archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.

For information on using python-libarchive, see Examples